[Avodah] The amah and the floor of the Bet HaMikdash

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 03:00:10AM -0400, Rn Toby Katz via Avodah wrote:
:> The water tunnel is 525m long. The inscription says that it's  1,200...
:> largest possible ammah in late bayis rishon, given the  inscription,
:> would be 45.7cm...

: The largest possible ammah, at 45.7 cm, would be 18 inches, which is the  
: number I've always used to translate ammos into modern  measurements.

My point was that the range usually cited in Ashk circles -- R Chaim Naeh,
RMF and the CI -- has as its *lowest* valid value what is the *largest*
possible value they held like during bayis rishon.

And that's the largest possible. It would mean assuming the Water
Tunnel is only 1,150 amos and they chose to round that to the nearest
100. Possible, but not overly likely.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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